Throughout the post-communist world region, disputes about education are bringing people onto the streets - evidence of the crucial importance of education to ordinary citizens.
Another Orange Revolution will be hard to achieve. In fact, a new wave of tyranny and repression in the post-Soviet world is a more realistic prospect.
Mongolia plunges further into political crisis, with both the governing party and the opposition fighting hard for the three seats needed for a majority.
Mongolian voters may have forced a stunning change in the political scene but that should not obscure the point that Mongolia needs a new electoral system.